Table Of Contents - IBM 88728AU - System x3950 - 8872 Datacenter High Availability Installation Manual

Contents
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The IBM Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Major components of the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 2. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installing a hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installing additional DIMMs
Installing an additional microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 3. Server controls, connectors, LEDs, and power . . . . . . . . 31
Front view
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Chapter 4. Configuring the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program
Installing and using the baseboard management controller utility programs . . . 38
Using the SAS/SATA Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using the ServeRAID configuration programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using the PXE boot agent utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using the Scalable Partition Web Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 5. Updating IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Chapter 6. Solving problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
POST beep codes
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Working inside the server with the power on
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Installing a DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Installing a memory card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Connecting the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Updating the server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
SMP Expansion cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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Turning on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Turning off the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Enabling and configuring SOL using the OSA SMBridge management utility
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Installing the OSA SMBridge management utility program . . . . . . . . 47
Using the baseboard management controller utility programs . . . . . . . 48
Creating a scalable partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Deleting a scalable partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
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